Cryptic crossword No 3,143
Fri 20 Feb 2026, set byKempley
Special Instructions: With thanks to two excellent test solvers!
Across
- Natural alternative finally making America 60% nicer (7)
- Thick milky juices from some plants found in flat ice sheets (7)
- Grape growers mixing any red inside six seconds (9)
- Online rag misrepresented structural element? (5,4)
- Working on installing one bulb (5)
- Spooner's son observed to get edamame? (3,4)
- At no time run after regular boomerangs! (5)
- Police transport damaged polar cart (6,3)
- Scruffy hare by heel of pheasant beater (5)
- Unofficial consumption tax secured by regular letters from appraiser (7)
- The girl desires ditching old bookcase parts? (7)
- Popular and very liberal blue sadly impossible (9)
- Bill enshrines right and starts to deliver on means for autonomy (7)
- Best of jam containing tip of elderflower (5)
- Ship featured in reference book after half of crew betrayed (7)
- Promote team losing final point, bringing in former volunteers on return (7)
Down
- Banning success secured by convict following naked youth (9)
- Nick gets house piano (3,4)
- Boisterous number is unknown (5)
- Raised section of masterpiece inspired relative (5)
- Wooded areas beneficial to homes having no neighbours initially (7)
- American nerd we put in propped up bed (5)
- Conspicuous old boy introduces five obligations (7)
- Prime former prison space with facelift at last (9)
- Politicians perhaps recall banishing soldiers beginning to shoot (7)
- Daughter lost by careless cave divers or the other way round? (4,5)
- Confident knight heard with leaders of the army in negotiation (7)
- Food passage absorbing gas from the bottom (7)
- Curious holy man conducted grace on vacation (7)
- Heavy industries essentially unfashionable (5)
- Loveless Colin being thrown in river for failure (7)
- Anyone carelessly straddling toilet with its lid down creates nuisance (9)
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